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What’s your name -3 (Gurajada Apparao Story)

What’s Your Name? (Part-3) Telugu Original : Gurajada Appa Rao English Translation: Naudury Murthy “Raminaidu walked up to Manavallayya. Holding his hand and pressing it as a gesture of immediacy, said, ‘Listen, you Vaishnavite! If Sarathi Naidu converts to Saivism, all of us will miss his special oblations Pulihora and Chakkera Pongali offered every Dwadasi […]

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What’s your name -2 (Gurajada Apparao Story)

What’s Your Name? (Part-2) Telugu Original : Gurajada Appa Rao English Translation: Naudury Murthy We stayed with our childhood pal Sayanna Bhukta for three days. He studied Logic under the tutelage of Sastry garu. He had good grounding in literature as well, and penned poetry occasionally. On the third day, the four of us were […]

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What’s your name -1 (Gurajada Apparao Story)

What’s Your Name? (Part-1) Telugu Original : Gurajada Appa Rao English Translation: Naudury Murthy God-made men! Man-made Deities! What’s your name? Whenever we expressed our incredulity about the content in Puranas, our revered teacher Sastry garu used to censure us saying, “Your education is a silly putty. You have lost your sense of reason. You […]

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What I have asked Amma this morning?

“What I have asked amma this morning?” Tamil Original : Gopalakrishnan Murugesan English Translation: V.Chandrasekaran “Appa,  tell me. What I have asked amma this morning?” Nivetha’s voice invited my attention. She stand near to me with rolling eyes. Immediately she pulled out the newspaper from my hand. She had a rubber in her left hand […]

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Mother’s Day(Indraganti Janaki Bala- Short story)

Mother’s Day Indraganti Janaki Bala Translation: Swatee Sripada  When the phone went on ringing before it turned morning, Shakunthala took the phone lying beside her pillow, without even opening her eyes. Guessing who it might be kept the phone near the ear and said “hello”  “Shaku! Good news for you! To tell you that I […]

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Stretched wings

Stretched wings Yaddanapudi SulochanaRani –Vippukunna Rekkalu  Translation-Swatee Sripada “Rajju, Rajju” beating with fists on closed doors, her voice sounded like a thunderbolt. The closed doors didn’t open. “Rajita! Open the door.” Prabhakar’s voice thundered as a military officer’s order. No answer. “Rajji open the door! Or shall I burn the room? Turn You into ashes” […]

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The male

The male Samatha Roshni Translation: swatee Sripada  We are ten to fifteen, good friends. We meet twice or thrice a year. We discuss joys and troubles, literature; stories so on and so forth. We talk everything, eat and drink what we like the best and celebrate. I have to tell this number ten to fifteen […]

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There is a way (Story by Sivaraju Subbalakshmi)

There is a way………… Sivaraju Subbalakshmi  Translation: Swatee Sripada  Doctor Madhava Rao, though came to that village just recently became very popular. He treated the poor compassionately. Kamala, the lady doctor, working with him in the same hospital thought in the beginning all his generosity was pretense to earn a good name, later she started […]

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